Improved apparatus for separating gum from cane-juice



H. GORTNEB.

'Apparatus for- Sepafati-ng Gum from Cahe Juice.

No. 58.095. Patented Sept. 18, 186.6.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIoE,

HENRY eonrnnn, on DEAVERTOWN, OHIO.-

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING GUM FROM CANE-JUICE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,095, dated September18, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY GORTNER, of Deavertown, Morgan county, andState of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Separatingthe Gummy Substance from Cane-Juice; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to make and the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, inwhich Figure 1 is a top or plan View of my improved apparatus. Fig. 2 isavertical section of the same, taken through the line a; m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish a convenient apparatus bymeans of which the gummy substance that comes with the canejuice fromthe mill may be readily and thoroughly separated therefrom; and itconsists, principally, in the combination of circular disks with thepartitions of the apparatus, as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the box or pan, which may be made of wood or metal, as may be mostconvenient. This box or pan A is divided by partitions a into three ormore compartments. These partitions are perforated with semicircularslots a extending from near their top to near their bottom, as shown inFig. 2. B are circular disks pivoted to the partitions at. These disks Bare of such a size as to cover the semicircular slots a over which theyfit so closely as to prevent the leakage of the juice from onecompartment to another. 0 are levers attached to the disks, by means ofwhich the disks are revolved, as desired. 1) are small pipes, which passthrough the disks B and through the slots a as shown in the drawings.

The juice is introduced into one of the compartments of the apparatusnear one corner through a pipe, D. The juice is allowed to stand in thecompartment until the gummy substance settles to the bottom. The disks Band pipe I) are then so arranged as to draw offthe juice into the nextcompartment, leaving the gummy substance and other impurities in thebottom of the compartment. In the same manner the juice is passedthrough the other compartments of the apparatus, and

finally it is drawn off through the pipe E into I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent An improved apparatus for separatingthe gummy substance from cane-juice, formed by the combination of thedisks B and pipes b with thepartitions a of the apparatus, the variousparts being constructed and arranged substantially as herein described,and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY GORTNER.

Witnesses STEPHEN G. FRAMPTON, J. M. WEAVER.

